Put the internet back under your control with the FreedomBox

Discussion in 'hardware' started by guest, Apr 22, 2019.

  1. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    Yes, sadly enough :( But what's stopping them isn't something like their ISP cutting them off.
     
  2. reasonablePrivacy

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    That way of thinking should lead to something like ban of cars with more than one seat for people that not opened a commercial company, because they are likely to provide not "purely personal service" i.e. drive friend to work or shop. Or at least massive and invasive investigation of people by IRS or other tax agency with cars with more than one seat, because they may do something not "purely personal".
     
  3. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    I'm not making this up. Just check out your ISP's ToS. If it doesn't exclude hosting websites, great. But unlikely, I think. In the US, at least.

    Edit: For example, Comcast:
    https://cdn.comcast.com/-/media/Fil...ev=37ca61d3-a7f6-4a20-bd33-3d72ffeb9d5a&la=en
     
  4. reasonablePrivacy

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    Well, so for people in USA it is not an option. They can pay for IaaS (VPS in the cloud) and install FreedomBox there, though.

    Does it mean I can't even remotely manage my own laptop via SSH connecting from Internet?
     
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  5. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    Sure, they could so that. Or just Debian and nginx, and call it a day ;)

    You can probably run whatever you like, as long as you're the only one using it.
     
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